Record Companies Quotes

Record Companies Quote of the day

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either rip you off or get you out of the way in five years to make way for the new groups.

I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.

The record companies really do conspire against the artists. Especially the black artists

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.

Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.

And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.

Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.

I think record companies are criminals.

It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder.

Oh, you know record companies. . . at the end of the day, it's business. If you analyse it, you're just a piece of meat. The minute you go bad, it's: 'Next!'.

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a clue, and they don't care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

It's quite a mistake to think that music fans don't work on major record companies. Sometimes, you know, you do find some good people on corporates, among all the infidels.

It's always push and pull with a record company.

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.

Albums aren't even selling anymore and there's a reason for that. Record companies are just signing single and ring tone deals and it doesn't seem like they're focusing on albums.

The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do.

I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.

Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.

You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time.

I applied for three jobs in record companies and was offered all of them. I took the most glamorous-sounding job in the promotions department and it began my love affair with the music industry.

First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.

The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.

Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission.

Everybody can perform, there are so many outlets. Musicians are no longer limited. In the past, the record companies made most of the money. I for one am not sorry to see them fade away.

People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.

There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.

Obviously record companies tend to be following what the scene is rather than making the scene.

The only thing the record companies put out now is 'Best of,'

What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it.

Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.

I was going to study at the Sorbonne and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.

You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.

I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.

Rock 'n' roll started to make so much money and generated so much income for the record companies that suddenly it was no longer evil.

The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.

You have to be talented and you have to be lucky. Record companies are not signing classic rock groups anymore.